The Trickster Tales of Al-?ariri in an Age of Commentary
An account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of the Maqamat of al-?ariri, a twelfth-century collection of fifty trickster stories Before World Literature offers an account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of one of the most widely read Arabic texts of the postclassical period: the Maqamat of ......
The US Military, Korea, and the Origins of Military-Industrial Capitalism
How the US military origins of global capitalism facilitated both South Korea's "economic miracle" and the decline of US industrial might Standardizing Empire traces the origins of today's United States-led capitalist world economy. The nation's foreign policy during the Cold War saw two unprecedented developments: the continuous global ......
Patients and Healers Across Traditional, Islamic, and Biomedical HealthSectors of Niger
Unravels the complexity of pervasive mistrust across the primary medical sectors of Niger Negotiating Mistrust examines a wide diversity of patients and healers--and interactions between them--in Niamey, Niger through the analytical prism of mistrust. It offers a holistic study of the medical landscape in Niamey by focusing on the intersections ......
Patients and Healers Across Traditional, Islamic, and Biomedical HealthSectors of Niger
Unravels the complexity of pervasive mistrust across the primary medical sectors of Niger Negotiating Mistrust examines a wide diversity of patients and healers--and interactions between them--in Niamey, Niger through the analytical prism of mistrust. It offers a holistic study of the medical landscape in Niamey by focusing on the intersections ......
Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James
Alice James: an exemplary nineteenth-century neurasthenic and diarist. William James: a foundational figure for American psychology and philosophy. Henry James: a preeminent author and literary critic. These three iconic figures of nineteenth-century American culture and letters were also siblings, children of the storied James family, yet the ......
Mass-produced of tin-lead alloys and cheap to make and purchase, medieval badges were brooch-like objects displaying familiar images. Circulating widely throughout Europe in the High and late Middle Ages, badges were usually small, around four-by-four centimeters, though examples as tiny as two centimeters and a few as large as ten centimeters ......
A look at how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States, reissued with a new preface that connects these early penitentiaries to our present debates over mass incarceration Liberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and ......
The postwar United States has experienced many forms of populist politics, none more consequential than that of the blue-collar white ethnics who brought figures like Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump to the White House. Blue-Collar Conservatism traces the rise of this little-understood, easily caricatured variant of populism by presenting a nuanced ......
A look at the efforts of two generations of Black Philadelphians to turn the City of Brotherly Love into a place of promise and opportunity for all, reissued with a new preface that continues the story of civil rights activism in Philadelphia up to the Black Lives Matter movement Although Philadelphia rarely appears in histories of the modern ......
